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Please find below all the presentations and resources from our Teach Meet

Please trial one idea in your classroom and for more information or help then please ask the presenter, I am sure that they will be happy to help.

Camscanner app by Marius Vermaak

Class Charts presented by Shahidur Rahman  an excellent tool for preparing seating plans

Judith Bentley and Tara Preston present on the excellent Mind Mapping Skills promoted by Positively Mad.

Can be an extremely useful technique to help students revise for any subject.

Sharon Jenner presents on Why Blog ?

What is the purpose and how relevant is blogging to teaching and learning…..

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Matt Cocker on the story so far with Edmodo

Nicholla Chambers presented on effective feedback methods in MFL

Emilie Darabasz presents Tweachers!

Melanie Wright demonstrated how to create a literacy friendly learning environment

Karima Lasfer showed us how to inject zest into the classroom using Task Magic

Jackson Home and Tamie Kyriakou show us how to use Tarsia across the curriculum

Jon Quirk presented on using Google Play for education

Chris Bently demonstrated how to use the fantastic screencast-o-matic to provide feedback
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Kumers Naidoo showed us five online web tools in 5 minutes

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Dee Sexton shared some differentiation strategies

Emilie Darabasz presents on…

Tweachers– Why teachers should be using twitter?

What’s the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make? Well here are some ideas I wanted to share.

Twitter is like a virtual staffroom, we are at times too busy in school to sit down and share ideas and resources. Twitter helps you to do so. In the search tool bar Hash tag #  follow by what you would like to search for (#AFL) and in seconds you can access a stream of links, ideas, opinion and resources from global professionals.

Twitter is no string attached- you can step into it when suits you: on the train or waiting for the kettle to boil you do not need to be logged on all the time for Twitter to be beneficial to you.

Twitter helps teachers to reflect on their own practice in order to improve and develop ideas. Teachers on Twitter share reflections and both support and challenge each other. This is a free and very efficient CPD!

With Twitter you get instant feedback – Posting an idea or a resource on Twitter means you can gather a range of opinions and constructive criticism within minutes: which is a great help when planning a learning experience or writing a policy.

Twitter helps me to  stay up to date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest developments in my areas of interest. By following leading individuals and organisations, Twitter users can stay at the bleeding edge of innovation and creativity. (Think about your own CPD )

So where do you start? Open an account for your personal CPD only. Think about the leading individuals in your subject area for instance Sue Cowley for behaviour – seach for their name and read their ‘Bio’ (The way they introduce themselves on the profile page). If you are interested follow them. Have a look at who they are following as well (as most of the time they will follow professionals in the same area if interest) and follow them too.

Do not forget chats and forum like @ukedchat: every Thursday night at 8pm on education ideas and issues, @BehaviourTeach: Monday night at 8pm chat on behaviour strategies in classroom or @STLchat on Sunday night at 8.30 pm (you do not need to be STL to follow this very interesting forum)